11 Garbage Pail Kids That Have the Same Names as Real People

by Sam Greenspanlast updated March 18, 2018 · originally written March 10, 2009

Not every Garbage Pail Kids’ nickname existed in a vacuum.

When I was a kid, I was all about Garbage Pail Kids. I was susceptible to many ’80s fads (He-Man, neon colors, the California Raisins, Swatch watches, Nintendo, doing crack)… and Garbage Pail Kids were right up there.

Today I found myself deeply lost in an incredible Garbage Pail Kids website (that’s hosted on Geocities… quite possibly making it the last useful remaining Geocities website in the world)… and I knew I needed to make a GPK 11 Points list.

As I went through the old cards, I realized that there are plenty of Garbage Pail Kids that, coincidentally, have the same names as real people (or, at least, real movie characters). So I decided on a photo essay list, comparing the real person and the corresponding Garbage Pail Kid side-by-side.

1 | Hairy Carrie

Cubs win!

2 | Mean Gene

“Let me tell you something, Mean Gene!”

3 | Large Marge

Tell ’em Large Marge sent ya!

4 | Al Catraz

Obscure references from recent and contrived episodes of The Simpsons are always going to be a part of this website.